The Presentation of Women in "As you Like it"
- Created by: Robyn
- Created on: 14-03-14 10:48
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- Presentation of women
- Rosalind
- Presented as bawdy for a woman
- Lacks socially appropriate sense of propriety
- Lots of humour/innuendos
- Ganymede
- Adopts the role for protection
- Masculinity
- Characteristics not frowned upon
- Adopts the role for protection
- Context
- Weaker sex
- Temptresses (Adam & Eve)
- Homemakers
- Could not be educated past a certain level
- Didn't usually have a say in who they married
- All women in this play marry for love and out of choice
- Celia
- Fair /effeminate
- Weaker than Touchstone & Rosalind
- "I would rather bear with you than bear you"
- Hardly speaks after act 4
- Phoebe
- Spiteful/Evil
- Parodies courtly love
- Audrey
- Not too intelligent
- Temptress for Touchstone
- Rosalind
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